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Damages - Season 3

It’s the biggest Ponzi scheme in the history of Wall Street and the US government is determined to get to the bottom of it. Who is better suited to find the truth than the good people of Hewes & Associates?

Publication date: September 13, 2012

Damages - Season 3

Centered on the intriguing world
of movers and shakers, Damages portrays how power and influence shifts
in the legal arena. It is an exceptional legal-drama in the sense that it
focuses more outside the courtroom on the lives and interactions between the characters.
As well as peeking behind-the-scenes at how these characters maneuver for
leverage, and how they position themselves to better manipulate others and the
situation in general.

At the center of the storm and
the story is Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) who, in a male-dominated world, heads
her own law firm of Hewes & Associates. Also
pivotal is the relationship between her and
her newly-graduated protégée Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne), who is impressed by
Patty to the point of idolizing her, and so dances the fine line of what is
ethical, or even legal, to please her mentor- until she ends up crossing that
line...

The dynamics of power-play, both
between these two dominant women, and between them and the rest of the people
involved in the case- to prove that they can swing
blows with the biggest players in this courtroom game- set the pace and enrich the drama with a sense of
ultra-realism which explains much of the inner-workings within the corridors
and rooms of a legal arena where anything is possible if you can find the right
law or statute, where money can buy you freedom, and where the line between
what's right and wrong often gets so blurry that it may as well not exist.

In Season 3 of Damages:

Every season of Damages
is dedicated to one, long-standing, intricate court case. The season starts a
year after season two’s finale, with Patty and Ellen still racing the legal
corridors as ruthlessly as ever. This season of the intriguing American legal
drama sees Louis Tobin, patriarch of the wealthy Tobin family involved in the
largest Ponzi scheme in Wall Street history.

Patty and Tom are
assigned as trustees by the US government to track down the money and try to
unveil any evidence that members of the Tobin family had prior knowledge of any
details about the scheme.

Although Ellen has
already left the office and is now working at the District Attorney’s office,
she often finds herself influenced by Patty’s style of getting things done.

As the season unfolds,
it becomes clear that Tom himself had already invested with the Tobin family’s
business and has lost a huge amount of money. Totally compromised by his
position, Tom keeps his investment a secret from Patty, yet also finds it
really hard to keep his personal feelings aside when dealing with the case. Where
did the investors' money end up? And how is Louis' son Joe involved in hiding
the money? What tragedies will occur in the Tobin family and the lives of those
involved with them because of all of this stolen money? And most importantly,
will Patty be able to return those billions back to the US government?